Description
Written by Guy Loveridge drawing upon the Chris Price Peter Collins Archive. Uniquely publishing for the first time in their entirety Louise Collins’ letters home to America from April 1957 until she returned to the United States, a widow, in 1960.
Lavishly illustrated with many colour photographs taken by Louise herself and others from numerous archives.
Guy takes the reader on a journey using Louise’s own words and illustrates it with appropriate images from multiple sources across the globe.
Peter Collins and Louise King met in Florida and were married within the week. She joined him as he flew home after his racing duties were complete, in April 1957. She accompanied him around the world as part of the motor racing circus and they were utterly inseparable from the day they met until Peter was tragically killed during the German Grand Prix at The Nurburgring on the 3rd of April 1958, exactly 18 months later.
Louise took photographs and sent many letters home. These form the core of this book which has been a labour of love for its author Guy Loveridge and the current custodian of Louise’s papers and photographs, Chris Price. They both hope this book bears tribute to not just Louise Colins-King, but also to her husband Peter and to Mike Hawthorn, Stirling Moss, Tony Brooks, Luigi Musso, ‘Taffy’ Von Trips, Eugenio Castelotti and all of the others who raced in what was a golden, but deadly, era.
- Limited Edition of 400 signed and numbered
